Information about the current, supported and planned issues of the Ubuntu distribution is provided by the Distro-Info utility.

Introduction

На The Ubuntu operating system has many distributions. It is useful to know which one is the last. Unlike Windows, which uses digital designations 95, 98, 2000, 2003, 10, 11 in Linux uses the code names of the distribution in the form of words, for example, Bionic Beaver corresponds to 18.04. Releases for simplicity are often encoded in words. For example, Bionic Beaver instead of 18.04.

How to find out the current code name of the distribution

Method No. 1 - full name of the distribution, for example, Focal Fossa

lsb_release -a

Method No. 2 - a short name of the distribution, for example, Focal

lsb_release -cs

The description of the team is given in the article Man.

Keys:
--all - все выпуски
--devel - последняя разрабатываемая версия
--latest - самая последняя версия - то же что --devel
--lts - данный ключ выводит имя последнего выпуска с длительным сроком поддержки ("Long Term Support"). Также, дистрибутивы lts рассчитаны не использование на предприятиях, т.к. более тестированы, включают в себя улучшенную поддержку оборудования
--Stable - last stable output
--supported - поддерживаемые (можно обновлять через репозитории)
--supported-esm - дистрибутивы, которые имеют платную поддержку с дополнительными обновлениями по программе Ubuntu Pro и 10 лет поддержки
--unsupported - не поддерживаются

The latest version of Ubuntu (--devel or--latest) for July 2024

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Actual LTS version Ubuntu (as July 2024)

Document -What's new in Ubuntu 24.04"Noble Numbat".

Various Ubuntu versions, for example, Lubuntu, generated by Ubuntu "Noble" are shown Here.

I will only list them:

• Edubuntu 24.04
• Kubuntu 24.04
• Lubuntu 24.04
• Ubuntu budgie 24.04
• Ubuntu Mate 24.04
• Ubuntu studio 24.04
• Ubuntu unity 24.04
• Xubuntu 24.04
• Ubuntu Kylin 24.04
• Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04

Third -party distributions based on version 24.04 "noble numbat"

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Supported versions.

For Ubuntu 25.10 Oracular, there is no description page and links for loading, because She is in development.

Thus, the last release with a long term of support (LTS) is NOBLE NUMBAT 24.04.

Links to distributions derivatives from the release "noble" are on the page -24.04 Noble Numbat Flavours, release date April 2024.

Thirdly distributions are mainly based on Focal Fossa 20.04 and Jammy Jellyfish 22.04.
Below are some examples of derivatives from Ubuntu OS, the support of which continues
SPISS NOT FULL .

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Which version of Ubuntu to choose. And if not ubuntu?

PC can be divided into 4 groups

• 0-3 years - new
• 3-5 years - modern
• 5-10 years - the main class of working office and home PC
• 10 or more years - outdated
• 15 or more years and netbooks - old

For new in my opinion, PC should choose the current LTS version, i.e. NOBLE NUMBAT 24.04.

For modern PC - Ubuntu 22.04 or derivatives (Linux Mint 21.3, Green Linux 21.3)

For 5-10 - summer PC in the office or at home - мне кажется, что лучше подбирать более лёгкие дистрибутивы на основе 20.04 Focal (оболочки LXQT, LxDE или т.п) - например, дистрибутив LXle. Or OS for modern PC based on Ubuntu 22.04, with mandatory replacement HDD hard drive for solid -state SSD and increase the volume of RAM up to 4 GB.

For outdated PC subject to use by software, which is assembled from the source, it is advisable to adhere to the version that is supported by hand -collected packages. The remaining requirements are for 5 ... 10-year-olds.

For old PC and netbooks (light laptops with central Intel Atom processors or similar, for access to the Internet) - special distributions for weak and slow PCs, for example,, for example, antiX.

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